I've decided to take the jump and upgrade my HTPC so it handles the latest GB-PVR interface and can play live TV, recordings and DVD at top quality. It makes sense to make it HD ready while I'm at it. After reading through these forums and on (what seems like) every hardware/HTPC site on the WWW I've pretty much settled on the following components:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050e 2x2.6Ghz 45W (Socket AM2) £53 link
Lots of sites seem to like the power/performance ratio of this CPU.
Being low wattage helps the heat/noise down.
People on these forums reckon it has enough grunt for HD playback.

MSI ATI Fanless HD4350 512MB DDR2 PCI-E £44 link
Need a s-video TV-out as I currently have a basic SD CRT Sony TV.
Read that it can decode MPEG and HD video with ease, and with low CPU usage. link link
Has DVI/HDMI (with HDCP) for future HD/Blueray use.

750 GB Samsung HD753LJ Spinpoint F1 SATA £64 link
silentpcreview.com reports that this is a very quiet drive.
750GB is double my current storage

2GB Corsair RAM £25 link
Obviously motherboard specific but looks a good buy.

I'm having a problem setting dateTime data types in the sqlite3 database

When I place a date, it saves into the database like

Hi all,
I have been reading the forums and other sources for the last few days after a series of events lead me to the inspirational idea of creating a mediacentre for home. It all started when the company I work for had a customer wanting to stream audio and dvd feeds into operating theatres. They have since put this on hold, however as the following days unfolded a series of events took place that leads me to believe that the Almighty upstairs is sending me on a mission, not unlike Moses...
Day 1: The boss comes in and says "I have a spare HP Proliant ML370 with 4Gb of Ram, +/- 300gb of Raid 5 Scsi drives, hot swap PSU’s and fans… anyone want it?" My hand was up faster than a $2 hooker heading to the naval base....
Day 2 (actually day 4, but day 2 sounds better): Same boss comes in and says "I've just signed up to be a Ruckus wireless reseller, anyone wanna play with the Mediaflex gear?" ...duh?
Evening of Day 2: Mrs g starts bleeting on about the cr*p tv reception in the bedroom and can't understand why we have MySky in the lounge and I have it relayed into the Bar, but can't do it to the bedroom.....

And from here the blessed Google transports me to gb-pvr...

The following day the boss asks what i'm going to do with the server etc. so I show him the site and mention the motivation (satisfying the wife) which leads to questions about Tuner cards (and jokes about me needing to satisfy the mrs with electrical equipment) and what i intend to use. I say "I dunno, haven't done any substantial research, but the Hauppage HVR4000 might be ok...." "Well go get one then." was the reply, Who am I to argue?

So off I go, purchase order in hand and have one on order. Hindsight tells me now that perhaps I should have checked whether:
a) The server can take it (shouldn't be a drama)
b) If it was, in fact the right card to get????

c) I'm also wondering what the best (most suitable) graphics card may be, from memory the server has PCI-X 64bit/100Mhz slots and PCI-Express x4 slots...

d) The server currently has Win Server 2007 x64 on it, MORE than happy to blow this away and put SBS on it (we have a spare license), or should I make it the XP beast from the spawn of Satan? (i'm not even sure i've read anywhere that the software will run on Windows Server?)

e) I notice that on a lot of sigs, many of you are using AMD, is there a specific reason for this or just random coincidence?

Apologies for the long post, but these are things are bugging me, and i'm sure you can appreciate my excitement ...tee hee... And yes I love my job....

I'm also up for sharing the love, so if the server is not going to be any good, I can build a new machine and maybe we could find a use for the server to benefit everyone (other than donating it off site, the boss may get grumpy at that) but maybe we could host something???

As you can tell i'm an absolute novice in this area, but thrive in others...

Thanks.

Finally I did upgrade to 1.3.11
Stopped the recording service first and then run the upgrade msi.
Then when everything was done the config application tried to start but it crashed. Also PVRX2.exe crashed on running
I rebooted and PVRX2.exe run without a problem, till I tried to show the program guide, nothing, only the red cross on white background.
In the log file there was an error message that the ChannelLogos folder could not be opened.
That folder used to be there as I was seeing channel logos.
So I created the folder, left it empty, and now everything works again.
Strange

The reason I did the upgrade was to get pvrx2 not to jump to the top of the recording list when you delete all recordings in a sublist, but I do not get that behavior, it still jumps to the top of the list. Will have to search a little further why.

Anyone had any luck accomplishing this?

IRBlast.exe always seems to call the .IR command file, and never the macro that is attached to it.

I've attached a macro that sends an IR command to 2 STBs for each numeric input from my mce remote.

But, when IRBlast.exe runs, it always defaults to the .IR file and only sends a command to 1 STB.

channels from my cox cable without the set top box. i like to record one channel while watching another using my popcorn nmt as the player and my pc as the source for storage.

Thanks a bunch

I am trying to set up my system to change channels on a Rogers Digital box.

Basic configuration:
Hauppauge HVR-1600

Works in WinTV (changes the channels on the digital receiver perfectly)

I have tried the instructions from the GBPVR wiki with no luck.

How do I configure GBPVR to change the channels?

Thanks in advance.
CST

Hi all.
I read the installer for GB-PVR for popcorn A110 nmt and had few questions.
Does the 5 files (telnet, script, etc) need to be at a pc hard drive or PCH internal hard disk. Reason I ask, i followed all steps, put in the ip address of my computer into telnet file and when i click on the installer from popcorn, it says , can not mkdir

Is it trying to install Telnet on PCH? If so, can I install any telnet on PCH like Lundman?

Appreciate any help.

Has anyone managed to get the computer power on function working for scheduled recordings?

My compro DVB T300 will power up automatically when using the Compro DTV scheduled recording but I cannot see how to get this feature working with GBPVR. GBPVR will wake the computer if the power is on but will not start the machine.

Hey,

I am using IR server to send IR commands to 2 STB's. The only IR commands that will work are the ones that I name 0.IR, 1.IR, etc. If I name them 1F.IR, it will not work.

I even tried running this from the command line, and whenever I execute the IRBlast.exe file, it says that "0.IR" cannot be found. So, it only seems to look at IR Commands with that exact naming convetion. Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

I am trying to learn 2 different IR commands for each number (1 for each STB).